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Geoffrey E. Fox

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Fiction: Rabble! A story of the Paris Commune, Troubador 2021; A Gift for the Sultan, on Constantinople in the 15th century, 2010, Turkish translation Bir cihan, iki sultan, Nokta Kitap, Istanbul, 2013; Welcome to My Contri, short stories of Latin America, 1988, expanded ebook 2012. Other short stories in Exquisite Corpse, Fiction International and other journals; short stories in Spanish published in anthologies and online journals under by-line of "Baltasar Lotroyo". Nonfiction: Hispanic Nation: Culture, Politics and the Constructing of Identity (U. Arizona Press); The Land and People or Argentina and The Land and People of Venezuela, both HarperCollins; articles and essays in The New York Times, The Nation, Los Angeles Times, and other p ...more

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Geoffrey E. Fox I do that all the time. Currently I'm wandering through eastern Czechoslovakia with Josef Švejk, trying to avoid getting killed in the Great War.…moreI do that all the time. Currently I'm wandering through eastern Czechoslovakia with Josef Švejk, trying to avoid getting killed in the Great War.(less)
Geoffrey E. Fox Thanks for asking, Margaret. I haven't yet read A Distant Mirror, thanks for the suggestion. My great interest in the Turk-Christian relations in the …moreThanks for asking, Margaret. I haven't yet read A Distant Mirror, thanks for the suggestion. My great interest in the Turk-Christian relations in the 14th and especially 15th centuries (my story takes place in 1402, the taking of Constantinople by Mehmet II in 1453) was in the wide area of collaboration between two supposedly irreconcilable ideologies. Lots of trade and political compromises between them, and very frequently their warriors would be fighting on the same side. Real life is always more complicated than ideology. (less)
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Welcome to My Contri

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Resolutions, past and present

For 2024, I posted four New Year’s resolutions as my alter ego The Man Who Can :    1, a new novel, this time set in Germany; 2, acquiring fluency in German; 3,  more book reviews, and 4, getting better on guitar.

I‘m part way there, on all four goals – except maybe no. 4, but I‘m still working on it. Thanks in good part to the support from our 6-member writing group „Thoth“, I now have a much clea

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The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek
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The garrulous Josef Švejk is Hašek's device to observe and lampoon the disastrous, corrupt, horribly inefficient and pointlessly cruel army of the Austro-Hungarian empire in the Great War (1914-1918). Švejk's affable placidity in even the most extrem ...more
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Leo the African by Amin Maalouf
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Amin Malouf's first novel is a wonderfully vivid reimagining of the life of Hasan al-Wazzan, better known as Leo Africanus, the 16th century chronicler whose Della descrittione dell’Africa et delle cose notabili che iui sono was for decades Europe's ...more
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In this thoroughly documented and engaging study, Peter Nettl uses the life of Rosa Luxemburg to explain the rapid growth and ultimate failure of the Marxist revolutionaries to make a reality of their dream of an egalitarian, truly democratic society ...more
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A Princess In Berlin by Arthur R.G. Solmssen
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This novel is a vivid and thrilling experience of the dizzying exuberance, violence and artistic creativity in Germany’s Weimar Republic of the 1920s, and the ugly forces that would turn that proud, once powerful and culturally advanced country into ...more
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Dulces guerreros cubanos by Norberto Fuentes
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El arresto, juicio y fusilamiento en Cuba en 1989 del general de División Arnaldo Ochoa Sánchez, el militar más distinguido de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias, héroe de la República condecorado por Fidel Castro, y ex comandante de las fuerzas cub ...more
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Todo es silencio by Manuel Rivas
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Los personajes tienen una presencia casi palpable en este pequeño pueblo de la costa Atlántica de Galicia, donde la vida dura y pobre de los pescadores se enreda con los secretos — el silencio — de una mafia de contrabandistas de poca cultura pero mu ...more
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